The Column-09-22-2015

Click the title above to open The Column September 22, 2015 Europe & Asia issue, Volume 11, Number 17, in an interactive PDF format.

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BIOTECHNICA and LABVOLUTION 2015

A team of scientists has analyzed and evaluated the impact of salt weathering on an historical house using a combination of ion chromatography (IC), chemometrics, and thermodynamic chemical modelling.

Microbial life is possible within the Earth’s mantle, according to new research. High performance liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (HPLC–MS) analysis of rock cores sampled from the Iberian plate margin (off the coast of Spain and Portugal) revealed the presence of lipid biomarkers indicative of microbial communities present beneath the seafloor more than 100 million years ago.

Phenomenex (Torrance, California, USA) and the Tecan Group (Männedorf, Switzerland) have announced a new collaboration to co-market automated solid-phase extraction (SPE) products.

Purnendu “Sandy” Dasgupta, Hamish Small Chair in Ion Analysis of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the UT Arlington College of Science, has been awarded almost $1 million from NASA. The grant will support research into extension of the open-tubular capillary chromatography platform that Dasgupta developed for the detection and separation of ions.

Finding Time for Thinking Time

Three-Dimensional Thinking

LCGC Blogger Tony Taylor presents his eight steps for improving your solid-phase extraction (SPE) results.